corbel

From Middle English corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”), named for the shape's resemblance to a crow's beak. Doublet of corbeau.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːbəl/

corbel (plural corbels)

1. (architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

   Synonym: corb

   Coordinate terms: console, modillion

   • 1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:

     The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels.

corbel (third-person singular simple present corbels, present participle (US) corbeling or (UK) corbelling, simple past and past participle (US) corbeled or (UK) corbelled)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

• corbel out

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• Cobler, cobler

Either a diminutive of corp (“raven”), corf, or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, from Latin corvus (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus).

corbel oblique singular, m (oblique plural corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative singular corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative plural corbel)

1. crow (bird)

• Middle French: corbeau m
  • French: corbeau m
    • → English: corbeau
  • → English: corbie
  • → Scots: corbie
• → Middle English: corbel
  • English: corbel